Our orchard is in bloom, the bees are taking advantage of the start of this event. Simply Beautiful.

Spring is a busy time in the apiary. Beginning in mid April, we are doing spring clean up. What that entails is breaking the hive down, cleaning the bottom boards, and reversing the hive boxes so that the brood box that was on top of the hive is now on the bottom. What this allows is room for the Queen to lay. During the winter the cluster moves up into the second brood box to access honey stores. So the bottom brood box now has multiple empty frames. Thus we take advantage o